And lay them down no more
Till we have driven down the Briton,
Forever, from our shore.
OUR COUNTRY SAVED
BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
(Extract from Ode recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865.)
Boom, cannon, boom to all the winds and waves!
Clash out, glad bells, from every rocking steeple!
Banners, advance with triumph, bend your staves!
And from every mountain-peak